A 23-year-old woman avoided jail time Wednesday after stabbing her blind date last year in a Las Vegas-area hotel room to get “revenge” for the U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani. 

While on a blind date with Daniel Trevino, a man she connected with on the dating app Plenty of Fish, Nika Nikoubin blindfolded Trevino and stabbed him in the neck with a kitchen knife while the two were having sex in a hotel room, according to police, 8 News Now reported. Nikoubin, who came to the U.S. from Iran when she was 12, was indicted last year by a Las Vegas grand jury on charges of attempted murder and two counts of battery, and she later agreed to plead guilty to two counts of false imprisonment with the use of a deadly weapon. Instead of a jail sentence, Judge Carli Kierny ordered Nikoubin to serve three years of probation. 

Trevino, who survived the stabbing, told Kierny that he has “the scars to show for it,” adding that he has “chosen to forgive but whatever the law decides to do, that’s up to the law.”

Bodycam footage from law enforcement obtained by 8 News Now showed Nikoubin telling officers that she stabbed Trevino out of “spite and revenge” for the drone strike ordered by President Donald Trump that killed Soleimani in January 2020. 

“I mean the U.S. killed Soleimani. Lots of blood spilled,” she said. “So, I feel like, it’s fair that American blood be spilled.”

“We were drinking a little bit and then — I guess we started to get into it and then I stabbed him,” Nikoubin added. 

Nikoubin’s lawyer argued that Nikoubin had a psychotic episode during the stabbing, and Kierny cited Nikoubin’s mental health issues as the reason she sentenced her to probation. The 23-year-old also told the judge she was raped when she was 18 and “did not fully realize the impact that this experience had on me and my mental health deteriorated.” Nikoubin also claimed she was in a mental health facility for ten days before meeting Trevino. 

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Nikoubin attended classes at a university in her home state of Texas while under house arrest, but a police representative for the university said their department did not know she was on house arrest in their jurisdiction. The judge said it appeared that the agency in Dallas monitoring Nikoubin only tracked her location and did not check to see if she had violated her curfew or other provisions. Nikoubin was later banned from the university’s campus, but her lawyer argued she did not violate any terms of her house arrest and said she did not have a connection to any terrorist organization. 

The Democrat ex-mayor of College Park, Maryland, pleaded guilty to 140 counts related to child pornography possession and distribution in a deal that stipulates the former politician serve 30 years in prison.

Patrick Wojahn pleaded guilty Wednesday to 60 counts of distribution of child pornography, 40 counts of possession of child pornography, and 40 counts of possession of child pornography with the intention to distribute, a press release from Prince George’s County State’s Attorney’s Office said.

“This is a horrific case,” said Aisha Braveboy, state’s attorney of Prince George’s County. “I am truly pleased that Mr. Wojahn has [pleaded] guilty and accepted responsibility for his actions and these horrendous crimes.”

“As a former elected official, the College Park community put its faith and support in him to serve each resident and their best interests. Instead, he let them down in a most disgraceful way,” Braveboy continued.

“Our children are both precious and vulnerable, deserving of the utmost protection,” the statement said. “The tragedy of them being preyed upon in cases like this cannot be understated.”

Braveboy added, “I want families in Prince George’s County to rest assured, that we will continue to exhaust every possible effort to ensure their safety and well-being.”

Wojahn, who is openly gay, served as a city council member for eight years before serving as mayor of College Park. He resigned from his position in March, preceding his arrest.

“On February 28, 2023, a search warrant was executed on my residence as part of an ongoing police investigation. I have cooperated fully, and will continue to cooperate, with law enforcement,” Wojahn wrote in his resignation letter. “I am stepping away to deal with my own mental health.”

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The Prince George’s Police Department (PGPD) announced in March that the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children had notified them that a social media account operating in the county possessed and distributed suspected child pornography. “Through various investigative techniques, PGPD investigators discovered the social media account belonged to Wojahn,” the department announced.

PGPD detectives served a search warrant at Wojahn’s College Park home on February 28, the statement said. “Investigators recovered multiple cell phones, a storage device, a tablet and a computer,” PGPD noted. It was additionally reported that Wojahn’s Kik account with the child porn videos used the handle “skippy_md.”

At the time, Wojahn was charged with 40 counts of possession of child exploitative material and 16 counts of distribution of child exploitative material.

Wojahn’s official sentencing is set for November 20.

Hank Berrien contributed to this account 

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